Compaoré, the previous president of Burkina Faso, has issued a life sentence for Sankara’s homicide

Burkina Faso’s former president Blaise Compaore was sentenced to life in jail for his function within the 1987 homicide of his predecessor Thomas Sankara.

There have been gasps when the navy court docket handed down the decision, 35 years after the person generally often known as the African Che Guevara, and Compaoré will possible not serve time.

He’s at the moment in exile in Côte d’Ivoire after being overthrown within the 2014 rebellion. The bitterness of many Burkinabeans about his function in Sankara’s dying is partly motivated by his betrayal of a person who was as soon as a detailed good friend of his.